Dolce far niente in Arabia
Subtitle: Georg August Wallin and his travels in the 1840s
By: [editor: Nina Edgren-Henrichson; translations (all except Hämeen-Anttila's article): David McDuff]
Contributors: Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland
Publisher: Sociey of Swedish Literature in Finland; Helsinki : Society of Swedish Literature in Finland
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Helsinki
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9789515832900
Subjects: Description and travel; Travel; Asianists; Philologists; Voyages and travels; Orientalism; Biography; History
Other titles: Georg August Wallin and his travels in the 1840s
Work titles: Dolce far niente i Arabien : Georg August Wallin och hans resor på 1840-talet. English
Description: Georg August Wallin's life and travels in Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula and Persia are presented in four articles by Patricia Berg, Sofia Häggman, Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila and Kaj Öhrnberg respectively. Wallin's impact as an ethnographic observer and linguistic scholar is also examined.
Notes: Translated from Swedish.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 132-138) and index.